Posted AT 3:40 AM EDT on 30/04/05
Women beware: Can you trust your mammogram?
About 150 hospitals and clinics across Canada are operating breast-cancer screening machines that have failed a national quality test, have never been tested, or are no longer being tested, causing health-care experts to worry that cancers may be missed.
For thousands of Canadian women, that means they are being screened on equipment that is too old or of questionable quality.
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